Habitat for Aviation at BETA’s Hiring Day

Written By Beth White

Abby Demar, Emma Cornett, Zoë Brosky, Kyra Becker, and Beth White attended BETA Technologies' Hiring Day in their brand new 40-acre manufacturing facility in South Burlington, VT.

We shared information about our initiatives, including the Women Build Planes program and handed out our hot-off-the-press SHERO postcard series, as well as our iconic Rosie Bandanas.

Abby got the chance to sit for an interview with one of BETA's engineers, which provided a great experience as well as an idea of what to work for in her last year of high school; and she and Kyra Becker got a chance to take BETA's electric eVTOL airplane, ALIA, for a virtual spin around BTV.

We were thrilled to be surrounded by other incredible non-profits, including the Vermont's chapter of Women in Aviation and EAA Chapter 613. It was a memorable day.

Beth White

Education Possibilitarian, Artist, Writer, Doula, Mentor, Aviatrix, Breast Cancer Survivor, Pilot-in-Command at Habitat for Aviation


In the spring of 2022, Beth White emerged from a 10-month battle with breast cancer with an idea: to create an apprenticeship program at Franklin County State Airport where youth work alongside adult mentors servicing conventional and electric aircraft. A pilot and airplane mechanic apprentice herself, and with family roots in the trades, Habitat for Aviation provides an taxilane for world learning opportunities for youth and adults who love to work with their hands to enter the FAA’s apprenticeship certification track. Each day she puts systems in place that make real John Dewey’s philosophy that we “learn best what we live” – a deep throughline from her time at Antioch University New England and as Regional Director for Big Picture Learning. Each learning experience is grounded in relationships, relevance, and practice. In October, 2023, Habitat for Aviation launched its Women Build Planes program, where an all-female team of Modern Day Rosies is building an airplane at Franklin County Airport, in northwestern Vermont, to show folks everywhere that despite the fact that only 2.6% of airplane mechanics are female, women BUILD, FLY, and FIX airplanes.

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